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Taron vs Tarrance

American parents have registered 2,816 Tarons since 1880, against 904 Tarrances. Taron is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taron against Tarrance, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taron Tarrance

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 66 years in which either name was published, Taron for 51 years and Tarrance for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taron Tarrance
Total US births 2,816904
Most in one year 7835
Babies in 2025 276
Estimated living today 2,700840
Median age today 2640
Peak year 20041980
Best rank 1,653rd boys1,655th boys
Rank in 2025 3,949th10,695th
First recorded 19631960
Girls / boys 90 / 2,7260 / 904

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tarrances alive today are over 40; half the Tarons are over 26. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taron and Tarrance.